We track when the London Institute is reported in the press. This includes press about the Institute’s activities and members, but not about specific discoveries, which are covered separately. The press may be written by people inside as well as outside of our organisation.

  • The Spectator

    Cognition13 Apr

    Talking is thinking

    Talking engages robust muscles of thought—not least when mathematicians take their problems to the blackboard, argues Thomas Hodgkinson.

  • Mood podcast

    Creativity18 Mar

    Creative convergence

    The advertising guru Graham Fink waxes lyrical about equations and working with the London Institute on the How Do You Feel Today? podcast.

  • Ri

    Geometry29 Feb

    Geometry’s dominion

    Following his popular Discourse, our Prof. Yang-Hui He and writer Madeleine Hall chat about the mysteries of geometry on the Ri Podcast.

  • Bloomberg

    Ukraine war20 Feb

    Security and freedom

    A Bloomberg piece names our Arnold and Landau Fellowships as one of the few programmes offering help to Russian and Ukrainian scientists.

  • interview

    Ukraine war22 May 2023

    The language of maths

    A piece in The Times explains how, thanks to our Arnold and Landau Fellowships, mathematicians divided by war can find a common denominator.

  • The spectator

    Probability4 Apr 2023

    What are the chances?

    In The Spectator, our writer Madeleine Hall hails John Venn, who pioneered not only Venn diagrams but also frequentist probability.

  • Nautilus

    Science history14 Mar 2023

    The big bang

    A century ago, in our rooms in Mayfair, Sir James Dewar died. Our writer Thomas Hodgkinson pays tribute to the inventor of cordite in Nautilus.

  • The Washington Post

    Evolvability1 May 2022

    Death, be not proud

    The Washington Post explains how man's mad search for immortality is getting serious in our cell programming collaboration with bit.bio.

  • the times

    23 challenges12 Jun 2021

    Challenging Times

    Is free will a mathematical problem? How about immortality? Or the quest for AI? The Times reports on our 23 Mathematical Challenges.

  • THE SPECTATOR

    Interview17 Dec 2020

    A singular mind

    In an interview with Thomas Fink, Sir Roger Penrose talks about his Nobel Prize, the beauty of physics—and why AI is nothing to fear.

  • FORBES

    Partnership13 Nov 2020

    LIMS-bit.bio

    Forbes explains how the London Institute, working with the biologists at bit.bio, may revolutionise our understanding of human life.

  • the times

    Partnership27 Oct 2020

    LIMS-bit.bio

    The Times welcomes the collaboration between London Institute mathematicians and the biologists at bit.bio to crack cell reprogramming.

  • Verdict

    Partnership22 Oct 2020

    Maths, meet biology

    Verdict reports on the collaboration between the London Institute and cell coding company bit.bio to decode the operating system of life.

  • High Life

    Discovery1 Apr 2019

    Sage of discovery

    British Airways’ inflight magazine runs a three-page profile of the London Institute, its founder and its new approach to doing science.